Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.20.16 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: close crash window in attr dabtree inactivation
When inactivating an inode with node-format extended attributes,
xfs_attr3_node_inactive() invalidates all child leaf/node blocks via
xfs_trans_binval(), but intentionally does not remove the corresponding
entries from their parent node blocks. The implicit assumption is that
xfs_attr_inactive() will truncate the entire attr fork to zero extents
afterwards, so log recovery will never reach the root node and follow
those stale pointers.
However, if a log shutdown occurs after the leaf/node block cancellations
commit but before the attr bmap truncation commits, this assumption
breaks. Recovery replays the attr bmap intact (the inode still has
attr fork extents), but suppresses replay of all cancelled leaf/node
blocks, maybe leaving them as stale data on disk. On the next mount,
xlog_recover_process_iunlinks() retries inactivation and attempts to
read the root node via the attr bmap. If the root node was not replayed,
reading the unreplayed root block triggers a metadata verification
failure immediately; if it was replayed, following its child pointers
to unreplayed child blocks triggers the same failure:
XFS (pmem0): Metadata corruption detected at
xfs_da3_node_read_verify+0x53/0x220, xfs_da3_node block 0x78
XFS (pmem0): Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (pmem0): First 128 bytes of corrupted metadata buffer:
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
XFS (pmem0): metadata I/O error in "xfs_da_read_buf+0x104/0x190" at daddr 0x78 len 8 error 117
Fix this in two places:
In xfs_attr3_node_inactive(), after calling xfs_trans_binval() on a
child block, immediately remove the entry that references it from the
parent node in the same transaction. This eliminates the window where
the parent holds a pointer to a cancelled block. Once all children are
removed, the now-empty root node is converted to a leaf block within the
same transaction. This node-to-leaf conversion is necessary for crash
safety. If the system shutdown after the empty node is written to the
log but before the second-phase bmap truncation commits, log recovery
will attempt to verify the root block on disk. xfs_da3_node_verify()
does not permit a node block with count == 0; such a block will fail
verification and trigger a metadata corruption shutdown. on the other
hand, leaf blocks are allowed to have this transient state.
In xfs_attr_inactive(), split the attr fork truncation into two explicit
phases. First, truncate all extents beyond the root block (the child
extents whose parent references have already been removed above).
Second, invalidate the root block and truncate the attr bmap to zero in
a single transaction. The two operations in the second phase must be
atomic: as long as the attr bmap has any non-zero length, recovery can
follow it to the root block, so the root block invalidation must commit
together with the bmap-to-zero truncation.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/x25: Fix potential double free of skb
When alloc_skb fails in x25_queue_rx_frame it calls kfree_skb(skb) at
line 48 and returns 1 (error).
This error propagates back through the call chain:
x25_queue_rx_frame returns 1
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x25_state3_machine receives the return value 1 and takes the else
branch at line 278, setting queued=0 and returning 0
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x25_process_rx_frame returns queued=0
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x25_backlog_rcv at line 452 sees queued=0 and calls kfree_skb(skb)
again
This would free the same skb twice. Looking at x25_backlog_rcv:
net/x25/x25_in.c:x25_backlog_rcv() {
...
queued = x25_process_rx_frame(sk, skb);
...
if (!queued)
kfree_skb(skb);
}
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets
`eui64_mt6()` derives a modified EUI-64 from the Ethernet source address
and compares it with the low 64 bits of the IPv6 source address.
The existing guard only rejects an invalid MAC header when
`par->fragoff != 0`. For packets with `par->fragoff == 0`, `eui64_mt6()`
can still reach `eth_hdr(skb)` even when the MAC header is not valid.
Fix this by removing the `par->fragoff != 0` condition so that packets
with an invalid MAC header are rejected before accessing `eth_hdr(skb)`.
CVSS Score
9.4
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-04-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: sch_netem: fix out-of-bounds access in packet corruption
In netem_enqueue(), the packet corruption logic uses
get_random_u32_below(skb_headlen(skb)) to select an index for
modifying skb->data. When an AF_PACKET TX_RING sends fully non-linear
packets over an IPIP tunnel, skb_headlen(skb) evaluates to 0.
Passing 0 to get_random_u32_below() takes the variable-ceil slow path
which returns an unconstrained 32-bit random integer. Using this
unconstrained value as an offset into skb->data results in an
out-of-bounds memory access.
Fix this by verifying skb_headlen(skb) is non-zero before attempting
to corrupt the linear data area. Fully non-linear packets will silently
bypass the corruption logic.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: xt_multiport: validate range encoding in checkentry
ports_match_v1() treats any non-zero pflags entry as the start of a
port range and unconditionally consumes the next ports[] element as
the range end.
The checkentry path currently validates protocol, flags and count, but
it does not validate the range encoding itself. As a result, malformed
rules can mark the last slot as a range start or place two range starts
back to back, leaving ports_match_v1() to step past the last valid
ports[] element while interpreting the rule.
Reject malformed multiport v1 rules in checkentry by validating that
each range start has a following element and that the following element
is not itself marked as another range start.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ip6t_rt: reject oversized addrnr in rt_mt6_check()
Reject rt match rules whose addrnr exceeds IP6T_RT_HOPS.
rt_mt6() expects addrnr to stay within the bounds of rtinfo->addrs[].
Validate addrnr during rule installation so malformed rules are rejected
before the match logic can use an out-of-range value.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()
build_expire() clears the trailing padding bytes of struct
xfrm_user_expire after setting the hard field via memset_after(),
but the analogous function build_polexpire() does not do this for
struct xfrm_user_polexpire.
The padding bytes after the __u8 hard field are left
uninitialized from the heap allocation, and are then sent to
userspace via netlink multicast to XFRMNLGRP_EXPIRE listeners,
leaking kernel heap memory contents.
Add the missing memset_after() call, matching build_expire().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: uinput - fix circular locking dependency with ff-core
A lockdep circular locking dependency warning can be triggered
reproducibly when using a force-feedback gamepad with uinput (for
example, playing ELDEN RING under Wine with a Flydigi Vader 5
controller):
ff->mutex -> udev->mutex -> input_mutex -> dev->mutex -> ff->mutex
The cycle is caused by four lock acquisition paths:
1. ff upload: input_ff_upload() holds ff->mutex and calls
uinput_dev_upload_effect() -> uinput_request_submit() ->
uinput_request_send(), which acquires udev->mutex.
2. device create: uinput_ioctl_handler() holds udev->mutex and calls
uinput_create_device() -> input_register_device(), which acquires
input_mutex.
3. device register: input_register_device() holds input_mutex and
calls kbd_connect() -> input_register_handle(), which acquires
dev->mutex.
4. evdev release: evdev_release() calls input_flush_device() under
dev->mutex, which calls input_ff_flush() acquiring ff->mutex.
Fix this by introducing a new state_lock spinlock to protect
udev->state and udev->dev access in uinput_request_send() instead of
acquiring udev->mutex. The function only needs to atomically check
device state and queue an input event into the ring buffer via
uinput_dev_event() -- both operations are safe under a spinlock
(ktime_get_ts64() and wake_up_interruptible() do not sleep). This
breaks the ff->mutex -> udev->mutex link since a spinlock is a leaf in
the lock ordering and cannot form cycles with mutexes.
To keep state transitions visible to uinput_request_send(), protect
writes to udev->state in uinput_create_device() and
uinput_destroy_device() with the same state_lock spinlock.
Additionally, move init_completion(&request->done) from
uinput_request_send() to uinput_request_submit() before
uinput_request_reserve_slot(). Once the slot is allocated,
uinput_flush_requests() may call complete() on it at any time from
the destroy path, so the completion must be initialised before the
request becomes visible.
Lock ordering after the fix:
ff->mutex -> state_lock (spinlock, leaf)
udev->mutex -> state_lock (spinlock, leaf)
udev->mutex -> input_mutex -> dev->mutex -> ff->mutex (no back-edge)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_report()
struct xfrm_user_report is a __u8 proto field followed by a struct
xfrm_selector which means there is three "empty" bytes of padding, but
the padding is never zeroed before copying to userspace. Fix that up by
zeroing the structure before setting individual member variables.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: tdfxfb: avoid divide-by-zero on FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO
Much like commit 19f953e74356 ("fbdev: fb_pm2fb: Avoid potential divide
by zero error"), we also need to prevent that same crash from happening
in the udlfb driver as it uses pixclock directly when dividing, which
will crash.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24